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Allied Warships

HMS Earner (W 143)

Rescue Tug of the Assurance class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeRescue Tug
ClassAssurance 
PennantW 143 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down24 Mar, 1943 
Launched3 Jul, 1943 
Commissioned18 Oct, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryOperated by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Earner (former Earnest, renamed Earner in 1943) was sold and renamed Nisos Rodos in January 1965.  

Former nameEarnest

Noteable events involving Earner include:

5 Jan, 1944
HMT Elm (Lt. K.A. Grant, RNR) and HMRT Earner together pick up 45 survivors from the British merchant Empire Housman.


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